DOOEEESSSS ANYONE NEED THE BATHHHHROOM?!

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Family disagreement about the bathroom., light hearted and one for larger families in one toilet houses. I know many of you will not be able to fathom this, but it’s common enough and not an easy fix to many old terraces for a number of reasons, that there’s one loo to share.

DH is one end of the spectrum. Every bathroom visit he’s SHOUTING does anyone need the toilet???!!! He’ll yell until he’s heard a no from everyone, one child may have headphones on, another is watching a film with a door closed and another maybe in the garden. It can go on for ages shouting up and down. It’s frankly annoying if you are dozing on the sofa and have to get up to yell back, you often have to get up and yell because he can’t hear you over the running water.

The house isn’t big, you hear the pipes and water as easily as a yell imo. However, even if I get up and say ‘I’m off to have a bath’ this isn’t registered. I have to say ‘do you need the toilet’, or half the time 2 mins after getting in someone will knock so desperate their bladder will explode. Half the time DH. I think people need to take some responsibility and use common sense, and cut the yelling a bit. The kids are being trained imo to wait to use the loo until the point of wetting themselves. They aren’t young kids. They go on hour long bus journeys or go to the cinema and cope, I don’t get why in the house there needs to be so often a culture of immediate toilet needs within 30 seconds. The teen is now also doing the yelling everytime he’s in the bathroom. If everyone joins in it’s a ton of yelling about that makes my head want to explode sometimes. DH works a job too within limited toilet access. So I’m confident it’s not medical issues for anyone.

It drives me mad the yelling, the knocking on each other. You can sit on the loo and find you’ve been followed upstairs! It’s like a prompt to others, if you don’t ask every person individually they feel they don’t need to reply or think, but if you walk upstairs you are followed!

I have said can’t people just go if they need it, or if they hear the bath, or is someone mentions a bath. Or wait ten minutes sometimes?

Aibu???

Please don’t response ‘you need another loo’, obviously this is ideal and I’m not daft. But we can’t for various reasons, financial, size and drainage positions

No solutions OP. I feel your pain. I get up at 6, rush straight for the shower and I'm out again before the morning stampede. I've also taken to brushing my teeth straight after dinner incase I can't get into the bathroom when I'm getting ready for bed later,

What annoys me is asking people id they need the bathroom, getting the answer of no, then knocking to come in mid bath! Had the same issue as a child. Looking forward to the day when we can get an extra loo.

Oh god yes. This is the 11 yr old. Shuffle, sniff, shuffle, heavy breathe…. Face staring.

We have no morning rush, all at such differing times here! There’s just no damn excuse. Bathroom is rarely occupied by the teenage slugs, most work long hours. It’s just so avoidably annoying

I had this problem, it was bad enough with 3 of us.
Plumber suggested turning the gloryhole under the stairs into a loo, which worked brilliantly for us.
He also stated quite categorically that there was always a way of adding a loo to a house.

I can't do any major works in my house as I'm in SH. I have a large cupboard that just has the boiler in it so I put a camping loo in there. I actually can't remember the last time anyone used it but it's good to have it there for any emergencies!

We are a 1 loo house, you have my sympathy. Our kids are oblivious to their bladder when engrossed in an activity but when they need to go they need to go NOW.

Comments like that are the root of right move adverts with toilets in bedrooms 😆

We only have one loo but it's all quite relaxed, maybe because the kids are younger and we don't have a bath nor long showers?
I've said in emergencies they can wee in the bath!
We are hoping to add a loo though as teenage years loom and the free for all set up won't last!

We just don't lock the door and if someone needs the loo and can't wait while someone else is in the bath or shower then they go to the loo. We only have one toilet and noone is very body conscious

I grew up in a family of 5 with just an outside loo and no central heating and can well remember the spiders lurking ready to jump on your bum. Luckily, I didn’t develop a phobia. 😂

I live in the height of luxury now with 3 bathrooms for 3 people and DH and DS share the main bathroom. DH is only allowed to use my beautiful en suite during the night or if he’s actually unwell and in bed. 🙁

Maybe a shower timer would be good for those 45 minute shower-hoggers! For environmental reasons even if nothing else. 10 minutes max. We once stayed at a holiday let with a 4 minute timer! There was a valid reason for it (which I forget) but we managed.

There was a very good reason, in the days when baths rather than showers were the norm, why loos (nearly always only one) were separate from the bathroom.

Omg! This has been my whole life!!
Grew up in a one bathroom 3 bed house, 6 people ( bathroom downstairs)
Now live in a smaller but same setup house.
My DM used to say it didn't matter when she went in the bath (often early hours) Someone would knock on the door within minutes of getting in the bath.
If I'm going in the bath I always ask family if they need the loo because I like to soak and I am not getting out! No shouting though!